One of my friends and faithful blog readers, Matt mentioned that my post last year about building the new kegerator was inspiring enough that he wants to take it up as a Spring project but aside from listing a couple of things, I didn’t really list all of the parts needed. Indeed, that is a big oversight on my part so maybe it’s not a bad idea to do that.

For those who missed it, here’s the build post where I did a fairly standard home-brew kit of converting a chest-freezer to a kegerator which gave me room for 4 serving kegs, 1 carbonating keg and some space for beers on top of the freezer condenser hump.

Some of the parts used I already had from the previous kegerator setup that I bought second hand from a guy on Craigslist.

Because I’m lazy, I’m going to do this in 3 sections for the parts list:

For some of these parts, you have to multiple how many kegs you’ll have. So you’re going to need a gas line assembly x4 and barbs and flanges x4 if you have 4 Corny kegs on. Also ball lock versus pin-lock will make a difference in your parts.

My setup has 2 Sankey kegs and 2 Homebrew kegs so most of these things were just X2 to cover my needs and for things like Hose / Tubing Clamps, make sure you get enough for every beverage / gas connection to flange in your setup.

3/6” tubing for beverage serving is ideal and other things like Gaskets you just have to know what to get with a little research.

As for the 3rd section, really all that I took from my old kegerator setup was the kegs themselves and the Sankey connectors which came with the original setup.

I think the total build cost to me for empty kegs, all parts above and wood, insulation, wood glue, etc came out to be right around $1,000.

Areas you can skimp on….cheaper regulator, taps, shanks, do 2 kegs instead of 4, get a smaller fridge. those are all options so, in short my build was assuming that I wanted the best and I went for that. Your mileage may vary and this can be done for much cheaper.

I wrote this blog out pretty fast after work but before dinner so I hope Matt and others find it interesting. I didn’t even proofread this one. Sorry!